update Bob informs me that I could just use killall -9 mozilla.

D'oh.

I often learn programming by starting with someone else's code and modifying or tinkering to suit my needs.

In an earlier post, I used this to kill Mozilla:

alias killmoz='pgrep moz | head -n1 | perl -e "while(<>) { chomp(\$_); print \$_ }" | xargs -0 kill -9'

It turns out that that can be done a lot more simply:

alias killmoz='pgrep moz | xargs kill -9'

According to the xargs man page, the -0 option is only used when "input filenames are terminated by a null character instead of by whitespace".

Whoops ... though I did learn some stuff in the course of making that mistake. :)

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